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• Christiaan Jacob Smit (88)
• Anna Virginia Christensen (88), Utah, Verenigde Staten
• * Huibert Aart van Iperen (83)
• Cornelis Bax (74), Canada, Canada
• Cornelis Bax (74), Sint Catharines, Niagara Falls Canada
• Adolf Wolffram (86), Essen
• Dorothy BISHOP (81)
• Aart Gijsbertsen (80)
• Antonius Johannes Josephus van Kollenburg (93)
• Catherine Ann van Gogh (79), Vancouver (WA. Ver. Staten)

• 1987 » Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 » Simona Dobrá, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Micah Richards, English footballer
• 1989 » Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner
• 1990 » Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
• 1991 » Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Yasmin Paige, English actress
• 1992 » David Alaba, Austrian footballer
• 1996 » Duki, Argentinian rapper

• 2002 » Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian banker and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
• 2004 » Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
• 2005 » Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
• 2007 » Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2007 » Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2007 » Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)
• 2008 » Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
• 2009 » Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
• 2010 » Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (b. 1929)
• 2011 » Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (b. 1933)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Lars
8. Stijn
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Jan
13. Ruben
14. Niels
15. Sam
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Maria
11. Anouk
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• May 23 » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
• July 6 » The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
• July 31 » Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
• August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
• September 17 » An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
• November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

The temperature on June 24, 2006 was between 10.8 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.